vyos_linkagg - Manage link aggregation groups on VyOS network devices

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
aggregate
List of link aggregation definitions.
members
List of members of the link aggregation group.
mode
    Choices:
  • 802.3ad
  • active-backup
  • broadcast
  • round-robin
  • transmit-load-balance
  • adaptive-load-balance
  • xor-hash
  • on
Mode of the link aggregation group.
name
required
Name of the link aggregation group.
provider
Deprecated
Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli.
For more information please see the Network Guide.

A dict object containing connection details.
username
Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME will be used instead.
host
required
Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over the specified transport. The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport.
ssh_keyfile
Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is the path to the key used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE will be used instead.
timeout Default:
10
Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error.
password
Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD will be used instead.
port Default:
22
Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device.
state
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
  • up
  • down
State of the link aggregation group.

Notes

Note

  • Tested against VYOS 1.1.7
  • For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the Ansible Network Guide

Examples

- name: configure link aggregation group
  vyos_linkagg:
    name: bond0
    members:
      - eth0
      - eth1

- name: remove configuration
  vyos_linkagg:
    name: bond0
    state: absent

- name: Create aggregate of linkagg definitions
  vyos_linkagg:
    aggregate:
        - { name: bond0, members: [eth1] }
        - { name: bond1, members: [eth2] }

- name: Remove aggregate of linkagg definitions
  vyos_linkagg:
    aggregate:
      - name: bond0
      - name: bond1
    state: absent

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
commands
list
always, except for the platforms that use Netconf transport to manage the device.
The list of configuration mode commands to send to the device

Sample:
['set interfaces bonding bond0', "set interfaces ethernet eth0 bond-group 'bond0'", "set interfaces ethernet eth1 bond-group 'bond0'"]


Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as network which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Network Team. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Network Team, see here.

Support

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author

  • Ricardo Carrillo Cruz (@rcarrillocruz)

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